Saturday 6/1 vs the Devil Rays with Bradish on the mound.

[Roy Firestone]

I wonder if the 105 pitches last time out fatigued Bradish..he just had nothing today..

Edited June 1 by Roy Firestone

[Malike]

Just now, Morgan423 said:

I mean, Cash did have a point.  People in the dugout can't see inside/outside very well in real time, but they can definitely see up and down, and they know when you ring up one of their players on an armpit-high fastball.

I'm pretty tired of it, honestly.  It's past time for robo-umps. 

But if we had robo umps it was a strike.

[Natty]

It's gonna be a slug fest. 

[Gurgi]

Just now, emmett16 said:

I didn’t like how he was shaking his hand and squeezing/flexing his fist.  Looked like he was felt something being a little off.  Will be curious to see what he says after the game. 

Was he ever shaking his pitching arm?  We really need for him to not be injured.  If Bradish goes down I can see the Orioles nearing desperate places.  Maybe selling one or multiple prospects for a starter.  

Anything to avoid that would be good.

[Morgan423]

1 minute ago, Gurgi said:

Next week he probably gets tommy john.  Its what we do.

It's what a ton of pitchers in baseball have been doing.  Throwing 110% every pitch, every game doesn't seem to be sustainable. 

[SteveA]

2 minutes ago, Philip said:

That has been true for years.

Really?  I think (and I believe a lot of others on here do too) that Hyde makes TOO MANY pitching changes.

[Roy Firestone]

its funny, if that strikeout Bradish threw didnt bounce so weirdly...maybe its a different inning..

[Dunk35]

3 minutes ago, gtman55 said:

He had no command at all. Fatigue I guess.

He had 5 days off between starts. Just praying he isn't hurt but....

[Morgan423]

1 minute ago, Malike said:

But if we had robo umps it was a strike.

That wasn't the pitch he got tossed for.  Cash was arguing the 0-0 pitch that got called a strike 4 inches above the zone.

Edited June 1 by Morgan423

[spiritof66]

9 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Our pitcher gave up some runs so you have to generalize to this, like it's some characteristic of our team?

When was the last time we had "early inning prosperity" and gave it back?

We are winning 65% of our games and our offense is scoring among the top five  in MLB in runs per game.   Yet we hear so many of these generalized statements about how we can't hit, we can't handle prosperty, we always give runs back after we score, we always do this wrong, we always do that wrong.

It's all such utter BS.   If we were making a habit of doing all the things wrong all the time that the whiners and crybabies constantly cry about, there is NO WAY we would be on a 105 win pace or one of the highest scoring teams in MLB.   It would be impossible.

Do we do those things on occasion?   Sure, every team does.   Every team has a scoring drought   Every team occasionally gets a lead and gives it back.   Every other team strands runners on 3rd with less than two outs now and then.

But there is NO WAY we are worse at all those things than most teams.   There is NO WAY those things can be endemic problems for us rather than just things that happen occasionally to us like every MLB team.  Because if they were, we would not have the record we do.

I agree that some of these things are not fair subjects for criticism or hand-wringing. But it is my impression that the Orioles, for one of the top teams in MLB, rarely get off to a big lead in the first few innings and, when they do, often (again for a very good team) give all or most of it up. 

I don't accept your logic, as I understand it, that because the Orioles have an outstanding won-loss record (just slightly above their simple Pythagorean expectation), they can't be not-so-good at anything.  A very good team can be mediocre or bad at some things. I think the Orioles are not very good at this one, and I said so without researching the accuracy of my observation.

[Philip]

2 minutes ago, justD said:

I wouldn’t because we don’t have anyone named “Viera.”

I probably would’ve unfortunately had to name someone for the third.

But it wouldn’t be Vieira for that either. 

That made me laugh, the day we picked him up I asked in a thread somewhere whether we were going to have him long enough for us to need to learn how to spell his name.

I guess the answer was yes, ha ha

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Winter said:

Hate to say it but.... i didnt like what i saw 

The OH when a pitcher so much as shakes a hand.

 

[justD]

15 minutes ago, accinfo said:

Isn't against the rules to be this sensible on the game thread?

Poor Steve tries to get this point across every, idk, three games or so? It’s gotta really get under his skin. But I don’t think he’ll ever change the tone of ranting we have in the game threads

[Moshagge3]

O's haven't won a 10-8 type ballgame in a while. I guess those don't happen in MLB much anymore in general.

[OnlyOneOriole]

2 minutes ago, emmett16 said:

He’s cooked.  

Yup.   I know the feeling.  Some days it just isn't your day.  Bradish had nothing.  Velocity was still good so not too worried.  

You can usually feel it when you wake up.   Everything is off. 

Funny how 'cooked' has become a word that all the social media influencers are using lately.  I watch a lot of you tube golf videos and one of my favorites is Taco Golf (he is from New Zealand) and Luke Kwon...who is American.  But both have Korean heritage.  Anyway last year they started to use the word 'cooked' when they hit a shot that ended up in a terrible spot and I remember thinking it was odd that they were using that because I hadn't see that word used since I was a kid.